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20th Chess.com Tournament (1601-1800) – Round 1

Game results in the order of their finish:

[pgn]
[Event “20th Chess.com Tournament (1601-1800) – Round 1”]
[Site “Chess.com”]
[Date “2012.09.01”]
[White “Cais”]
[Black “vk2008”]
[Result “0-1”]
[WhiteElo “1662”]
[BlackElo “1655”]
[TimeControl “1 in 3 days”]
[Termination “vk2008 won by resignation”]

1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 a6 5.Bd3 Nb4 6.O-O Nxd3 7.Qxd3 e6 8.a3 Bd7 9.Re1 c5 10.dxc5 Bxc5
11.b4 Ba7 12.Ne5 O-O 13.e4 Bc6 14.Nxc6 bxc6 15.exd5 cxd5 16.Qg3 Bb8 17.Qf3 Qc7 18.Bf4 Qxf4 19.Qxf4 Bxf4 20.g3 Bh6
21.a4 Rac8 22.Ra3 Bd2 0-1
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I will not be advancing in this tournament. Please feel free to have a look at the balance of the game below.

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Chess 2012.10.08

Not a very good showing on my part … I’ll have to come back to this game and have a look for my errors.

[pgn]
[Event “Let’s Play!”]
[Site “Chess.com”]
[Date “2012.09.29”]
[White “Cais”]
[Black “conansson”]
[Result “0-1”]
[WhiteElo “1639”]
[BlackElo “1424”]
[TimeControl “1 in 3 days”]
[Termination “conansson won by resignation”]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.Bg5 Bg4 5.h3 Bh5 6.g4 Bg6 7.Bg2 Ne4 8.Bf4 e6 9.O-O Bd6 10.e3 Bxf4
11.exf4 Qf6 12.f5 exf5 13.Nxd5 Qd6 14.c4 fxg4 15.hxg4 h5 16.g5 h4 17.Bh3 O-O 18.Nxh4 Nxg5 19.Bf5 Ne7 20.Nxe7+ Qxe7
21.Bxg6 fxg6 22.Qg4 Rf4 23.Qg3 Rxh4 24.Qxh4 Nf3+ 0-1
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See a complete analysis compliments of Chess.com below …

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Chess 2012.08.28

Five-Minute Chess is not one of my strengths, but it was still fun to while away a little time last night at Chess.com:

Game 1
[pgn]
[Event “Live Chess”]
[Site “Chess.com”]
[Date “2012.08.28”]
[White “carito30236”]
[Black “Cais”]
[Result “1-0”]
[WhiteElo “1292”]
[BlackElo “1074”]
[TimeControl “5|0”]
[Termination “carito30236 won by resignation”]

1.e4 e5 2.d4 Nf6 3.d5 d6 4.Nc3 Bg4 5.f3 Bh5 6.g4 Bg6 7.h4 h5 8.g5 Nfd7 9.f4 exf4 10.Bxf4 Ne5
11.Bxe5 dxe5 12.Nf3 f6 13.Qe2 Qe7 14.Qb5+ c6 15.dxc6 bxc6 16.Qa4 Qb4 17.Qxb4 Bxb4 18.gxf6 gxf6 19.O-O-O Nd7 20.Ne2 O-O-O
21.Rg1 Bxe4 22.Nh2 Nc5 23.a3 Rxd1+ 24.Kxd1 Rd8+ 25.Kc1 Bd2+ 26.Kb1 Be1 (26…. Be3) 27.Bh3+ 1-0
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